On Nov 4, 2011, at 12:01 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 11/04/2011 12:48 AM, Adrian Stoness wrote:
yea and even expensive stuff now is flimsy
Not really true, of seriously expensive stuff. If you could keep it balanced, even the
most current IBM big iron could easily hold a car up in the air.
And to some extent, they still have some exciting industrial design. Nothing quite as fun
as Cray's, of course (the T90's "gold sarcophagus" design is just truly
nuts), but the z9 and z10 were fairly attractive looking machines.
- Dave